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- Title: Curnow's Anthologies and the Strange Case of Walter D'arcy Cresswell.
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 1997
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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I do not expect to present any new or previously unknown information in this paper. At least some of you will be familiar with the component parts of the material that I present, but it may be that the interest will lie in the way that I re-organize these parts into a new pattern or whole. My intention is to consider how Walter D'Arcy Cresswell was represented both poetically and critically in Allen Curnow's major anthologies between 1945 and 1960, and the possible significance of that representation for the canonical process that Curnow was undertaking. There is still not a great deal of evidence available to us to document the evolution of Curnow's thought as A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-1945 took shape. That evolution obviously involved a process which included the selecting of the poems and whatever negotiations might have taken place between the editor, the contributing poets, and the publisher. But of equal importance historically, it involved Curnow's own working through the ideas that were eventually to coalesce into the book's Introduction. That document was in its own way as much an influence in establishing a canon of modern New Zealand poetry as the selecting of the poems themselves.